How Businesses Are Building Specialized AI They Can Trust

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NVIDIA introduces the Agent Toolkit, an open modular foundation with models, tools, skills, and a secure runtime to help businesses build specialized, trustworthy AI agents for various industries.

<div id="bsf_rt_marker"></div><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Companies are asking how to build </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/specialized-ai/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">specialized AI</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that fits with the way their workflows actually run. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first wave of enterprise AI was about access. Companies experimented with new frontier and open models, ran pilots and explored how AI can help. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, specialized agents — </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/multi-agent-systems/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">systems of models</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that can reason, use tools and take action even for the most complex workflows — put more useful AI within reach of the people who already know the work best.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Agents are already helping life sciences researchers accelerate medicine discovery, security teams investigate vulnerabilities with more context and operations teams seamlessly coordinate supply chains. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To tap into these specialized agents, businesses are using a foundation they can adapt and own: one built on models they can customize, tools that connect to systems they already use and infrastructure that lets agents operate safely at scale.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NVIDIA Agent Toolkit — comprising models, tools, skills and a secure runtime — provides an open, modular foundation for building safer, faster, lower-cost digital AI coworkers that enterprises and developers can customize, specialize, control and trust.</span></p> <h2><strong>The Building Blocks for Specialized AI Coworkers</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Enterprises and developers building secure, specialized AI agents require:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Models, which provide the reasoning foundation. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tools and skills, which connect agents to the actions and domain expertise needed to get work done. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Runtime support, which helps agents execute workflows. </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NVIDIA Agent Toolkit includes all three:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/foundation-models/nemotron/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NVIDIA Nemotron</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> open models give teams flexibility to customize, evaluate and deploy agents for their own needs. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai/nemoclaw/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NVIDIA NemoClaw</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> blueprints provide patterns for safer agent behavior, delivering accurate results at lower costs, with tools and skills connecting agents to concrete actions.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a target="_blank" href="https://build.nvidia.com/openshell"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NVIDIA OpenShell</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> runtime helps agents operate safely inside the systems where work gets done. </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NVIDIA technologies accelerate all the pieces needed to turn a powerful </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/frontier-models/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">frontier model</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> into a fully functional digital coworker. The toolkit’s users can work with third-party agent harnesses — or agent orchestration frameworks — of their choice, including Hermes Agents and OpenClaw.</span></p> <p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-94915" src="https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agentic-ai-press-nvidia-agent-toolkit-diagram-5398200-1920x1080-r2.jpg" alt="" width="1920" height="1080" srcset="https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agentic-ai-press-nvidia-agent-toolkit-diagram-5398200-1920x1080-r2.jpg 1920w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agentic-ai-press-nvidia-agent-toolkit-diagram-5398200-1920x1080-r2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agentic-ai-press-nvidia-agent-toolkit-diagram-5398200-1920x1080-r2-1680x945.jpg 1680w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agentic-ai-press-nvidia-agent-toolkit-diagram-5398200-1920x1080-r2-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agentic-ai-press-nvidia-agent-toolkit-diagram-5398200-1920x1080-r2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agentic-ai-press-nvidia-agent-toolkit-diagram-5398200-1920x1080-r2-1290x725.jpg 1290w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agentic-ai-press-nvidia-agent-toolkit-diagram-5398200-1920x1080-r2-630x354.jpg 630w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agentic-ai-press-nvidia-agent-toolkit-diagram-5398200-1920x1080-r2-300x169.jpg 300w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agentic-ai-press-nvidia-agent-toolkit-diagram-5398200-1920x1080-r2-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This unlocks enterprise AI momentum with control. And that matters because the most valuable agents across industries will be specialized. </span></p> <h2><strong>Agents Take Shape Across Industries</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The specialized AI foundation is already at work.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In life sciences, agents can help researchers call domain models for protein design, virtual screening, genomics analysis and biomarker discovery. The </span><a target="_blank" href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-bionemo-agent-toolkit-giving-ai-agents-the-tools-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery"><span style="font-weight: 400;">new NVIDIA BioNeMo Toolkit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> enables work that previously took months to be completed in days. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In healthcare, agents support clinical documentation, clinical decision support and care coordination. Plus, physical agents in robotics systems trained in digital twins of hospitals can scale surgical assistance and hospital automation to meet care demands.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In software, cybersecurity, industrial operations and customer workflows, agents can connect to the tools and data teams already use, helping people move faster through complex workflows.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/company/newsroom/press-releases/pr/2026/cadence-unveils-industrys-first-fully-autonomous-virtual.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cadence</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Synopsys</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are building autonomous agents for chip design and engineering workflows. </span><a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/specialized-ai-agents/#:~:text=1.%20CrowdStrike%20Defends%20Against%20Modern%20Cyber%20Threats"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CrowdStrike</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is running specialized security agents that triage alerts with 98.5% accuracy.</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Palantir</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">SAP</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ServiceNow</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Siemens</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.3ds.com/topics/company-news/ai-factory-virtual-twins/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dassault Systèmes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are embedding agent capabilities into the enterprise platforms where critical decisions get made. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It all points to the same larger shift: Agents become more useful when they can combine models, tools, skills, runtime and </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/ai-infrastructure/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">infrastructure</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in ways companies can adapt to their own workflows. NVIDIA Agent Toolkit provides an open, modular foundation that enables this combination.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn more about </span></i><a target="_blank" href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/ai-agents"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">NVIDIA Agent Toolkit</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span></i><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/NVIDIA-BioNeMo/bionemo-agent-toolkit"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit.</span></i></a></p>
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# How Businesses Are Building Specialized AI They Can Trust Source: [https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-agent-toolkit-open-models-tools-skills-secure-runtime-ai-agents/](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-agent-toolkit-open-models-tools-skills-secure-runtime-ai-agents/) Companies are asking how to build[specialized AI](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/specialized-ai/)that fits with the way their workflows actually run\. The first wave of enterprise AI was about access\. Companies experimented with new frontier and open models, ran pilots and explored how AI can help\. Now, specialized agents —[systems of models](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/multi-agent-systems/)that can reason, use tools and take action even for the most complex workflows — put more useful AI within reach of the people who already know the work best\. Agents are already helping life sciences researchers accelerate medicine discovery, security teams investigate vulnerabilities with more context and operations teams seamlessly coordinate supply chains\. To tap into these specialized agents, businesses are using a foundation they can adapt and own: one built on models they can customize, tools that connect to systems they already use and infrastructure that lets agents operate safely at scale\. NVIDIA Agent Toolkit — comprising models, tools, skills and a secure runtime — provides an open, modular foundation for building safer, faster, lower\-cost digital AI coworkers that enterprises and developers can customize, specialize, control and trust\. ## **The Building Blocks for Specialized AI Coworkers** Enterprises and developers building secure, specialized AI agents require: - Models, which provide the reasoning foundation\. - Tools and skills, which connect agents to the actions and domain expertise needed to get work done\. - Runtime support, which helps agents execute workflows\. NVIDIA Agent Toolkit includes all three: - [NVIDIA Nemotron](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/foundation-models/nemotron/)open models give teams flexibility to customize, evaluate and deploy agents for their own needs\. - [NVIDIA NemoClaw](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai/nemoclaw/)blueprints provide patterns for safer agent behavior, delivering accurate results at lower costs, with tools and skills connecting agents to concrete actions\. - The[NVIDIA OpenShell](https://build.nvidia.com/openshell)runtime helps agents operate safely inside the systems where work gets done\. NVIDIA technologies accelerate all the pieces needed to turn a powerful[frontier model](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/frontier-models/)into a fully functional digital coworker\. The toolkit’s users can work with third\-party agent harnesses — or agent orchestration frameworks — of their choice, including Hermes Agents and OpenClaw\. ![](https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agentic-ai-press-nvidia-agent-toolkit-diagram-5398200-1920x1080-r2.jpg) This unlocks enterprise AI momentum with control\. And that matters because the most valuable agents across industries will be specialized\. ## **Agents Take Shape Across Industries** The specialized AI foundation is already at work\. In life sciences, agents can help researchers call domain models for protein design, virtual screening, genomics analysis and biomarker discovery\. The[new NVIDIA BioNeMo Toolkit](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-bionemo-agent-toolkit-giving-ai-agents-the-tools-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery)enables work that previously took months to be completed in days\. In healthcare, agents support clinical documentation, clinical decision support and care coordination\. Plus, physical agents in robotics systems trained in digital twins of hospitals can scale surgical assistance and hospital automation to meet care demands\. In software, cybersecurity, industrial operations and customer workflows, agents can connect to the tools and data teams already use, helping people move faster through complex workflows\. For example,[Cadence](https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/company/newsroom/press-releases/pr/2026/cadence-unveils-industrys-first-fully-autonomous-virtual.html)andSynopsysare building autonomous agents for chip design and engineering workflows\.[CrowdStrikeis running specialized security agents that triage alerts with 98\.5% accuracy\.](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/specialized-ai-agents/#:~:text=1.%20CrowdStrike%20Defends%20Against%20Modern%20Cyber%20Threats)Palantir,SAP,ServiceNow,Siemensand[Dassault Systèmes](https://blog.3ds.com/topics/company-news/ai-factory-virtual-twins/)are embedding agent capabilities into the enterprise platforms where critical decisions get made\. It all points to the same larger shift: Agents become more useful when they can combine models, tools, skills, runtime and[infrastructure](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/ai-infrastructure/)in ways companies can adapt to their own workflows\. NVIDIA Agent Toolkit provides an open, modular foundation that enables this combination\. *Learn more about*[*NVIDIA Agent Toolkit*](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/ai-agents)*and*[*NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit\.*](https://github.com/NVIDIA-BioNeMo/bionemo-agent-toolkit)

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